Joy

Theme Hymns and Songs for the Series

• Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus UMH 196
• Refiner’s Fire CCLI# 426298
• I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206

Service Music

• O Come, All Ye Faithful – Refrain only UMH 234
• The First Song of Isaiah TFWS 2030
• Doxologies and Offertory Responses for Advent and Christmas
• Advent Sanctus
• Handbell and Piano Scores for Christmas Eve and Post-Christmas Season
• Two New Advent Pieces for Choir and Congregation
• Carol Improvisations for Christmas Worship

Music for Candlelighting Liturgy

At the end of each week’s candlelighting liturgy as a congregational action all may sing

• O Come All Ye Faithful, UMH 234 – refrain only
• He Came Down, TFWS 2085 – follow this order of verses: hope, joy, peace, love (be saved)
• I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206 – play verse quietly underscoring the reading and lead them to sing the refrain “In Him there is no darkness...”

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Music Notes

Isaiah 9:2-7, Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

The first gift of Christmas is joy. “I bring you great joy.” Joy is felt, but also lived into. Joy is gifted, but also aspirational. The message tonight is Emmanuel, God is with us.

• Joy to the World UMH 246
• I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206
• Hark! the Herald Angels Sing UMH 240
• O Come, All Ye Faithful UMH 234
• Welcome to Our World W&S 3067
• Away in a Manger UMH 217
• Star-Child TFWS 2095
• Like a Child TFWS 2092
• Angels We Have Heard on High UMH 238